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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Ms. Schiffren warns that "society" is "not likely to respond gently" to court-ordered legitimacy for homosexual marriages. Much of society also protested desegregation, but few people today would protest a court move that precipitated necessary change much faster than anything that could have been expected from Congress.

But more important: Why should it bother society if homosexuals marry? Legitimizing gay marriages does not constitute a statement about heterosexual marriage any more than homosexuals' right to vote compromises heterosexuals' voting. If two men or two women want to marry, that's their business and no one else's — it simply doesn't pertain to anybody else.